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Originally Posted by guest1234567
Hi Harp,
Is there anything really wrong with this though?
I mean with all the bashing of the MSM, it has become common place to think of bloggers as the Alternative to the MSM, and some are practically considered journalists in their own right. The courts themselves seem confused as to whether bloggers get the same rights to protect their sources.
Isn't it expected that a journalist would pursue a story that they were working on? Then why hold this blogger to a different standard?
Unfortunately, Obama phrased something that he shouldn't have. As has Hillary. It seems to me that the biggest issue is that supporters on both sides are always asking for a pass for some reason like, "He/She's tired." These are the same people who will point to every stupid thing Bush said because he can't speak English, but now they want to say their side can't be criticized.
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I see your point, but Mayhill Fowler is not a blogger. She has been paid by HuffPo for months to be a "citizen journalist" (their term, not mine). Many of us at HuffPo were outraged at a snarky OffTheBus piece she wrote about Obama last Monday or Tuesday.
It is quite possible that Fowler was posing as an Obama supporter (something she certainly did not pretend to be at OffTheBus) to get into a private strategy meeting.
She has no credentials of any kind. She has apparently never worked outside the home and has spent her time working on family genealogies. HuffPo just wiped about 5 Comments that had been
posted in response to Jay Rosen's defense of Fowler.